Novel programmable built-in current-sensor for analog, digital and mixed-signal circuits

The paper presents a novel programmable BICS topology in IBM 65 nm CMOS technology. Programmability, which is the main motivation of this approach, is shown on three different CUTs, simultaneously. It is shown that proposed topology has 473 MHz bandwidth, 200.6ps detection time with 1.5μA sensitivity. Moreover, these specifications are achieved with only one control pin. The advantage on area overhead becomes more significant, as the number of CUTs increases in the system. These results show that proposed programmable BICS is superior when it is compared with recent works.